Comparativity of intertextual inclusions in English-language media discourse: linguocognitive aspect

Abstract

Introduction. The present article addresses the issue of using intertextual inclusions within English-language media discourse, specifically the representation of linguocognitive situational models in quotations and receiving media texts. The aim of the study is to identify linguocognitive situational models presented in quotations and receiving texts, their dominant components, and to determine their role in the process of interaction between texts and discourses. Drawing on the material of contemporary English-language media, a comparative analysis of the original utterance and its new contextual environment is carried out, making it possible to reveal transformations of linguocognitive situational models in the process of quoting. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the application of the author’s linguocognitive situational model for comparing the dominant components of the models represented in an intertextual inclusion and a receiving media text. Dominant components are understood as components of linguocognitive situational models that are of particular significance for the development of the represented situation and are foregrounded by the authors through intertextual inclusions and other linguistic means. They also act as the central semantic elements on which the recipient’s attention is focused when a quotation is transferred to new communicative conditions. Results. Comparativity as a basic methodological framework makes it possible to trace the changes occurring in linguocognitive situational models in accordance with the journalist’s pragmatic goal. The study has established that a significant transformation of the dominant components, up to their complete replacement, can occur in a receiving media text. Conclusion. The comparativity of intertextual inclusions in English-language media discourse consists in the comparison of linguocognitive situational models, represented through language means in an intertextual inclusion and a receiving text, and their dominant components. One or several components of the linguocognitive situational models represented in quotations may differ from those presented in the receiving media text, which draws the recipient’s attention to them and gives them a dominant character. In some cases, identical linguocognitive situational models are represented in both the citation and the receiving text.